At Nous Connected, we believe Art is both a passion and a lifelong dialogue. We guide individuals, institutions, and museums in building, stewarding, and evolving meaningful collections through advisory services in appraisal, acquisition, and collection management.
With a focus on Modern and Contemporary Art, we combine curatorial insight with market expertise to develop acquisition strategies tailored to each client. We support both emerging and established collectors, offering clarity and guidance that helps navigate the Art world with confidence.
For those beginning their journey, we provide a strong foundation, helping to define aesthetic sensibilities and create a clear starting point for exploration and growth. For established collectors and museums, we operate in a curatorial and strategic capacity, advising on acquisitions, deaccessioning, reinvestment, and long-term collection planning. Our work also extends to collection management, including database organization, framing, conservation, insurance, museum loans, and stewardship.
Our commitment is to cultivate collections that are intentional and enduring, ensuring that the works our clients live with continue to hold meaning over time.
Since the founding of Nous Connected, our work has developed through a combination of institutional leadership and direct engagement with galleries, artists, and collectors across New York and Europe.
In my role as Executive Director of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, I have had the opportunity to collaborate with a wide network of galleries, curators, and cultural partners. Through this position, I have worked on exhibitions, developed partnerships, and engaged with collections from both a curatorial and operational perspective. This experience has shaped a strong understanding of compliance, preservation, and the responsibilities that come with managing and presenting Art within an institutional setting.
At the same time, this role has never existed in isolation. It has been part of a broader, collective effort.
Working alongside teams, collaborators, and stakeholders, we have built systems, developed projects, and created structures that support both internal organization and public engagement.
Our work has involved close collaboration with grant-making bodies, government institutions, council members, and private partners, ensuring alignment, clarity, and long-term collaboration. These relationships have required not only strategic communication, but also a shared sense of responsibility, trust, and adaptability across different contexts.
Public engagement has been central to this process. Through tours, programs, and events, we have focused on creating experiences that allow audiences to connect more deeply with the works on view. This extends into the museum’s digital presence, where content, communication, and visibility have been developed as part of a coordinated effort.
In parallel, through Nous Connected, this institutional experience has expanded into a collaborative advisory platform. Working closely with the museum and its stakeholders, we developed exhibitions across different premises, expanding the presence of Art beyond the institution and into new environments.
These projects have gone beyond presentation. They have been conceived as opportunities to build meaningful public programs, engaging communities and creating dialogue around Art and its role within society.
What defines this work is not only leadership, but collaboration. The ability to move between institutional and private contexts has been shaped by a shared process of learning, exploration, and collective responsibility.
While my role has been to guide and structure these initiatives, their realization has always been the result of teamwork, bringing together different perspectives, skills, and commitments.
This remains at the core of Nous Connected: a practice built on dialogue, trust, and the understanding that Art is not developed in isolation, but through ongoing collaboration.
Nico Simoni
Founder & CEO, Nous Connected| New York, NY